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Scott County is divided into 5 Civil Townships as follows: Finley, Jennings,
Johnson, Lexington and Vienna.
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Scott County was organized January 12, 1820 becoming effective February 1,
1820.
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Scottsburg wasn't always the County Seat.
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The County Seat of Scott was in Lexington from March, 1820 until May, 1874.
The records from the old Courthouse in Lexington had to be moved at night
and placed on the train at the Depot in Lexington and shipped south on the
O&M Railroad to Jeffersonville and then north on the J.M.&I. Railroad
to Scottsburg. This was done to prevent a riot from the local townspeople
who were upset that the county seat had been removed to Scottsburg, in which
caused local resentment in several decades that followed. -- thanks
to Cory Walker for these details!
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Several appeals wee made to the Legislature to relocate the County Seat and
this was not done until the building of a railroad through the county in
1871. A new town was laid out on the railroad March 27, 1871, named Scottsburg,
in honor of Thomas Scott, President of the Jeffersonville, Madison &
Indianapolis Railroad, to which the Seat of Justice was removed after completion
of the new Courthouse.
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According to the Society of Indiana Pioneers, an individual was a pioneer
of our county if they resided here on or before December 31, 1825.
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Indiana automobile License Plates issued in Scott County start with the prefix
72 because it is the seventy-second county in alphabetical listing.
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